Toy cannon.



E. KESSLER.

' TOY CANNON.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.'3I.1912.

Patented Aug. 20, 191 8.

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

EMIL KESSLER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TGY CANNON.

Application filed October 31, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL KEssLnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1393 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Cannon, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of the present invention are to provide a simple and inexpensive toy of this character, of sturdy construction and which can be readily aimed and fired.

In general, the invention comprises a gunbarrel mounted on a suitable carriage, a spring operated plunger working in the barrel, a cooking lever connected with the plunger and a trigger lever for holding the cocking lever, which can be operated to fire the piece.

The details of the invention will be under stood from the accompanying drawing which discloses the device embodied in a preferred form and wherein Figure 1 is a side view of the toy, with the operation illustrated in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal. sectional view of the barrel, showing the pluner therein' Fig. 8 is a rear View of the toy; llig. i is a detached broken view of the yoke shaped trigger lever, the cooking lever appearing in section; Fig. 5 is a broken detail view of the stop onstruction for the cooking lever.

6 designates the gun carriage and 7 the un barrel mounted thereon, these parts being usually patterned after the full sized gun. The spring operated plunger which works within the barrel is shown as consisting of a piston 8 and a rod 9 connected therewith, said rod passing through the closed rear end 10 of the barrel and being connected with the cooking lever. The piston makes a more or less tight fit in the bore of the barrel, according as to whether it is to compress air to secure a pop gun effect or is simply to propel a projectile dropped into the barrel.

Surrounding the plunger rod is a coiled spring 11, bearing against the back of the piston at its forward end and bearing against an abutment shoulder 12, carried by the tubular member 13, at its rearward end. This abutment member may simply be a tubular sleeve of the proper length slipped loosely over the rod 1n the assembly of the device and bearing against the closed end 10 0f the barrel at its rearward end.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

Serial No. 199,410.

The cooking lever is designated 14; and is shown pivoted at its lower end at 15 to the gun base and having its upstanding intermediate portion pivotally connected with the rear nd of the red at 16.

The trigger lever is designated 17 and as illustrated is constructed as a yoke having the forward spaced apart ends thereof pivoted on the base or carriage at 18, at a point forward of the cooking lever pivot and the rearwardly extending portion thereof formed as closely spaced parallel arms 19, embracing the upstanding cocking lever. This trigger lever is shown made from a single strip of metal folded upon itself to provide the rearward parallel arms and the forward more widely spaced pivotal portions described.

Interlocking shoulders are provided on the two levers, which here take the form of a transversely extending pin 20 on the cooking lever and an abutment 21, formed by cutting a notch 22 in the upper edge of the trigger lever.

The trigger lever is forced upwardly by a bent spring 23 engaged beneath the free end of said lever, from which it will be seen that as the upstanding lever is drawn back to cock the piece the lug 20 will be caught in the notch 22 and the pie e will be looked in condition to be fired at will by the simple depression of the free end of the trigger lover.

The forward or firing movement of the cooking lever is arrested by its coming into contact with a stop provided by striking out a lug 24: from one of the side pieces of the yoke, this lug projecting angularly from the side piece out of which it is out and seating in an opening 25 formed in the opposite side piece. The lug is thus braced at both ends and so is capable of withstanding the repeated impacts of the cooking lever.

The construction it will be seen is quite simple and is of sturdy design so as to operate properly in spite of the hard usage to which such toys are ordinarily subjected.

I claim:

1. A toy cannon comprising a gun barrel, a carriage mounting said barrel, a spring operated plunger working in said barrel, a cooking lever pivoted on the carriage and connected with the plunger, a trigger lever pivoted on the carriage and provided with a notch in its edge, a lug on the cooking lever for engagement in said notch, and a spring for yieldingly holding the trigger lever with the notched portion thereof engaged with the lug on the cooking lever.

2. A toy cannon comprisinga carriage, a barrel mounted thereon, a spring operated plunger working in the barrel, an upstanding cocking lever connected with said plunger and pivotally supported on the carriage, a rearwardly projecting trigger lever pivoted on the carriage at a point forward of the pivotal support of the cooking lever, engaging shoulders on the levers for holding the cooking lever in cocked position and a spring for yieldingly holding the trigger lever with said shoulders engaged.

3. A toy cannon comprising a carriage, a barrel mounted thereon, a spring operated plunger working in said barrel, an upstanding cocking lever pivoted on the base and connected with said plunger, a yoke pivoted on the base and having substantially parallel side members disposed at opposite sides of the upstanding cocking lever, said cocking lever having a laterally projecting lug and the yoke having a notch in the upper edge thereof for receiving said lug and a spring beneath the free end of the yoke for yieldingly supporting the same with the notched portion thereof engaged with the lug aforesaid..

4. A toy cannon comprising a carriage, a barrel mounted thereon, a spring operated plunger working in said barrel, an upstanding cocking lever pivoted on the base and connected with said plunger, a yoke pivoted on the base and having substantially parallel side members disposed at opposite sides of the upstanding cocking lever, said cocking lever having a laterally projecting lug and the yoke having a notch in the upper edge thereof for receiving said lug, a spring beneath the free end of the yoke for yieldingly supporting the same with the notched portion thereof engaged with the lug aforesaid, and a stop lug extending across between the side members forward of the cocking lever for limiting the forward stroke of said lever.

5. A toy cannon comprising a carriage, a barrel mounted thereon, a spring operated plunger working in said barrel, an upstanding cocking lever pivotally supported on the carriage and connected with the plunger, a yoke pivoted on the carriage at a point in advance of the pivoted support of the cocking lever and having rearwardly extending side members disposed at opposite sides of the cocking lever and provided with notches in the edge thereof, a laterally projecting lug onthe cocking lever for engagement in said notches, one of said side members having a laterally projecting angularly bent stop lug and the other side member having a seat receiving said stop lug, and a spring for yieldingly supporting the free end of the yoke.

6. In a toy cannon, a barrel, a piston working therein, a rod connected with said piston and extending through the end of the barrel, a tubular member within the barrel surrounding the rearward portion of the rod and bearing against the end of the barrel, said tubular member having an abutment shoulder at its forward end, a spring encircling the rod bearing against the piston at its forward end and against the abut ment at its rearward end and cocking means engaged with the rod.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

EMIL KESSLER.

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